The secret of Sufism is that it has no secret at all'.

If you can turn a murderer into a mere thief, you are making progress.

It is not important to have said a thing first, or best - or even most interestingly. What is important is to say it on the right occasion.

If the path has been laid down, why the successive appearance of different teachers? Why would anyone reinvent the wheel, if everything were as cosy and sequential as primitive longing so easily convinces us?

To 'see both sides' of a problem is the surest way to prevent its complete solution. Because there are always more than two sides.

Sometimes a pessimist is only an optimist with extra information.

You need not wonder whether you should have an unreliable person as a friend. An unreliable person is nobody's friend.